Ornate sign for a post office in
Bourges.
La Poste is the mail service of France, which also operates postal services in the French Overseas Departments of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Mayotte, and the territorial collectivitiy of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It is headquartered in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.[1][2] La Poste postage stamps are valid for use in the Overseas Departments, but not in the Territorial Collectivities, which issue their own stamps, separate from metropolitan France. It also operates the postal service in Monaco, while in Andorra, it operates postal services alongside those of Spain.
Activities [edit]
Mail delivery [edit]
La Poste carries a part of the mail in Metropolitan France using a special yellow trainset SNCF TGV La Poste, which travels at night between Paris, Mâcon and Cavaillon. The train makes 6 daily round-trips.
Parcels and Express (GeoPost) [edit]
GeoPost groups all the Express subsidiaries of La Poste Group. In France: Chronopost International, Exapaq. Worldwide: DPD,[3] Yurtiçi Kargo, Seur GeoPost.
Other activities [edit]
In addition to postal services, it also offers banking services (with La Banque Postale) and, via Chronopost, courier services. After the government, La Poste is the second largest employer in France. It also offers webmail, providing @laposte.net email addresses and hosts approximately 1.6 million active email accounts.[4]
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